ALSTON, Christopher C.Henry Ford and the Negro People
[Detroit]: National Negro Congress and the Michigan Negro Congress, 1940. First Edition. Addresses black workers at Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, encouraging them to stand with white workers and aid the UAW's organizing efforts at the plant. Addresses Ford's racist and antisemitic history, particularly singling out a pro-KKK...

BRODY, CatharineNobody Starves
New York: Longmans, Green, 1932. First Edition. A female heroine survives economic depression and a violent labor strike in 1930's Detroit, only to be shot by her deranged, unemployed husband. All but forgotten today, this is one of the really great proletarian novels of the Depression, highly praised upon publication...

[COMMUNISM - MICHIGAN]Broadside - Vote Communist Against Hunger, Wage Cuts, Fascism & War!
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American...

[RADICAL FICTION] [DETROIT] SMITTER, WesselF.O.B. Detroit
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry, written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee, Paul Jordan-Smith (1885-1971), was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of...